Chapter 232: The Fourth Disaster

In the Qiong Guang Star System, on the Morning Star, deep night.

Inside a warmly atmospheric, brightly lit room, a holographic game pod slowly opened.

A flawless-faced girl used her slender right palm to grab the edge of the game pod and pulled her body out of it.

Raising both hands and gradually stretching her body, this flesh, customized via genes during the embryonic stage, displayed a stunning figure.

Recalling the scenes that had unfolded in the game, the girl unconsciously frowned and muttered inwardly: "What a broken game, no new player guide at all, high-tier Wu Gong manuals given away casually, yet learning requires an experience bar. Thinking that focusing on realism is an excuse to be so perfunctory? Negative review."

As an interstellar network game review blogger, recently the entire Federation had been flooded by a new game company.

Ads for this online game were everywhere on the Federation's network; no one knew how much currency the game company had actually thrown around.

And as a game account with a bit of fame in the Interstellar Federation, she had received a trial invitation for this game yesterday, followed by a delivered package on the same day.

As a result, the moment she entered the game and created an account, she was carelessly declared to have awakened superpowers, and the subsequent plot went from high to higher.

'So this game has no main quest, right? It all relies on players exploring themselves? What's the point? There's no playability at all.' Feng Qiaoyan muttered complaints under her breath.

Making a hand gesture and swiping casually, the girl opened a chat group; as a game blogger, she naturally had several peer exchange groups to discuss recent hot topics and game strategies.

And the beta access qualification for this game naturally wasn't hers alone; other famous interstellar bloggers had also received corresponding beta codes.

But the moment she swiped open the chat software, the messages above caught the girl's attention.

Having been away for only half a day, the messages in a group chat of just over a hundred people had already reached the 999+ level.

'Surely they are all complaining about the game's speechless operations done for the sake of so-called realism?'

Feng Qiaoyan made a guess in her heart, but after opening the chat history, she found that everyone was immediately rendered speechless by the messages inside, acting wildly.

【Unscrupulous Advance】: I declare, "Two Realms Domination" is the greatest game in the history of the Interstellar Federation!

Seeing a string of agreeing words following it, Feng Qiaoyan murmured to herself: 'Is this a troll?'

But then she watched helplessly as a string of "+1" comments flooded the virtual panel.

'Could it be not a troll, but that the game I played was actually a pirated version with the same name?'

With a thought of investigation, she directly scrolled to the earliest chat records and flipped through the dialogue bit by bit.

As a result, after flipping through over a hundred messages, they were all complaints about the game's poor guidance, bland content, and gaining only 1 experience point per hour of cultivation.

'Surely these are all my illusions.' The girl thought this in her heart.

But just as she was not about to continue scrolling down, a message froze her sliding action.

【Blood-Handed Demon】: Holy crap, did you guys learn a technique? The effect of this technique is too awesome!

【Blood-Handed Demon】: As soon as I entered the game, I killed 10 NPCs with a knife on the subway, gained 100 experience, then maxed out the experience bar and directly achieved Qi Introduction.

【Blood-Handed Demon】: Then my experience bar directly became Level 0, 0/1000; as long as it fills up with 1000 experience, I can level up to the next level.

【Blood-Handed Demon】: Although the experience bar is a bit long, where is the difficulty for me? I am a noble player; I just went NPC slaughtering, slaughtering, slaughtering, slaughtering, slaughtering.

【Blood-Handed Demon】: Afterwards, I discovered the game's leveling mechanism: even if your level is 0 with 50% progress and hasn't leveled up yet, you can directly obtain half of the physical attributes of Level 1, meaning all attributes increase by 5 points.

【Blood-Handed Demon】: Anyway, the process of fighting monsters was very satisfying; by the time I came to my senses, I was already Level 1, and the experience bar became 0/2000.

【Blood-Handed Demon】: Then I wanted to return to reality to rest; guess what? The strength I had in the game could actually be brought out.

【Blood-Handed Demon】: Yes, don't doubt it; in reality, you can directly obtain the same strength as in the game, understand?

"Strength in the game... can be brought into reality?" Feng Qiaoyan looked at this passage, only then becoming alert that something was different.

Just now, she had unconsciously ignored it; just like the innate control over her limbs, that ability to manipulate memories seemed to still be on her body after exiting the game.

With a sense of investigation, she unconsciously looked to her left at the homeothermic animal resembling a hamster, which was fed daily on schedule by the artificial intelligence.

Five seconds later, looking at the animal in her palm that had fallen into a daze due to memory erasure, Feng Qiaoyan stood completely frozen in place, her mind recalling the technique in the game that required 120,000 experience points to enter.

'This game is completely different from others, and I have even obtained a superhuman identity.'

Silently reading through the remaining messages, as 【Blood-Handed Demon】 revealed more, more game mechanics were exposed.

First, the physical attributes improved in the game could be brought out, and after players were killed, they could immediately respawn at a random location within ten kilometers nearby, with no effect on reality.

However, because all equipment disappeared upon death, 1000 experience points were deducted, and other NPCs' memories of the character would not disappear.

Since one person has only one account to use until death, it is impossible to create a new account; one can only inherit one account and play it until death, so it is best not to mess around.

At the same time, not only killing people, but killing other animals also grants experience; the experience gained varies according to the individual's strength value.

Thinking of the game company's slogan of "absolute realism" during its promotion in the Interstellar Federation, and comparing it with the fact that strength in the game can be perfectly brought out, could this not be a real world?

But just as the game bloggers of the Interstellar Federation were discussing with each other, Ji Donglai here was completely confused by the crime rate.

Within a short day, the domestic crime rate skyrocketed directly.

Within one day, the number of civilians dying from murder increased by over ten thousand directly.

Especially since these murderers were getting stronger the more they killed; even if they were killed by superhumans, they would respawn nearby after a while and continue the slaughter.

If it weren't for the fact that there were dozens of such cases, Ji Donglai would have thought it was a newly awakened superhuman committing the crimes.

Of course, such chaos did not last long.

Because of rich experience fighting different superhumans, Ji Donglai quickly changed his control methods when facing these troublemaking players.

Since they cannot be killed, just knock them unconscious and completely restrict their movement; as long as they cannot move and cannot die, then there is no problem.

So, within just one day, as dozens of stubborn beta testers were locked up, almost equivalent to a permanent ban.

Everyone else who had been eager to cause trouble suddenly went silent for the time being.

(End of Chapter)